A study led by researcher Lisa Kellogg of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that a restored oyster reef can remove up to 10 times more nitrogen from Chesapeake Bay waters than an ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 17, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 0

Look out the window and you're likely to see the dispersal of seeds—dandelion tufts in the wind, a squirrel burying an acorn, a robin flying off with a dogwood fruit. You might even have a burr "velcroed" ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

During the first six months of 2012, sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem were the highest ever recorded, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Microbes, sponges, and worms—the side effects of pollution and heavy fishing—are adding insult to injury in Kenya's imperiled reef systems, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation ...

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Aug 06, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- Aquatic researcher Stephanie Bush has found that one species of squid, Octopoteuthis deletron, is able to jettison part of its arm when either attacking or being attacked. Known as arm autoto ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 02, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

The number of basking sharks recorded in Britain's seas could be increasing, decades after being protected from commercial hunting in the late 20th century. The most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

New research into seabirds highlights the need for marine conservation to consider the different behaviours of males and females in the species it aims to protect.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 19, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org) -- A new scientific study has identified two distinct populations of white shark at the east and west of Bass Strait in Australian waters, prompting researchers to suggest the huge fish may need regional conservation ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The planet is warming up, especially at the poles. How do organisms react to this rise in temperatures? An international team led by a CNRS researcher from the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology ...

Biology - Ecology

May 15, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 08, 2012 3.8 / 5 (8) 8 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers attempting to map the various types of fish living in the eastern Gulf of Mexico have been using an automated sea glider, which is a small autonomous submarine outfitted with a ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2 |

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2